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Handmade Home: Creating My Dream Patio
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Today decor8 columnist Anna-Malin is back to visit us from Sweden sharing her recently redecorated patio. I love seeing how people treat a patio space – some fancy tables and chairs with a big umbrella, others add a water feature or fire pit and still others incorporate hammocks or even build a koi [...]

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Design Night
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This is one hot planter. I recently got word from Dominic D’Andrea and his wife that their company, Design Night, just introduced a gorgeous handmade ceramic planter and my gosh, it’s great! In fact, if I had outdoor space I’d be emailing Dominic right now asking for a white one, please. I’d love [...]

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Terrain: My Wish List
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The season is starting to change from Summer to Autumn and Oktoberfest will kick off next week. This is my favorite time of the year, the time for new beginnings, leather jackets and layering clothes, pretty bags and boots, and patterned tights. It’s also a great time to layer the home, decorate, and enjoy candles [...]

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Reader Q: Help My Ugly Front Porch!
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Jen is a reader looking for some help today with her front porch. She cannot make any structural changes but needs help with color and perhaps some furniture ideas and placement.

Jen’s stoop – Any suggestions?

Jen says, “It’s a fairly useless porch and it’s waaaaaay too white. We are [...]

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Garden Inspired…
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It’s funny how your own work can inspire you, isn’t it? But then again, I constantly refer to decor8 archives for ideas and inspiration. Here is a little garden-themed post for your enjoyment today, inspired by this. If you blog, maybe you’d like to pull together a garden post of your own and share [...]

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Warp Weft Co. {patio umbrellas}
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I’ve been working on a gardening piece for the Boston Globe and I thought I’d share a little something I discovered during my research. Now these make me excited, as in so excited that I want to run outside and create the ultimate patio space… If only I had a patio. Just look at these [...]

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Outdoor Fabric {and garden} Resources
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Right. So you want to get your act together on the patio and design a pretty space to relax and entertain. Tired of your local garden store cushions, you head over to Target and other retailers but walk away feeling less than inspired. What to do?

Outdoor patio image from

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There’s No Place Like Home…
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Inspired by the beautiful garden and patio photos shared by Apartment Therapy readers during their June Outdoor Home month, I thought I’d take you on a tour of my backyard so you can see how I live. Click here to take the little tour.

I lived [...]

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